Writing Credits and Honors

Writing Credits and Honors:

+ “Tanager’s Cantrip” Rattle magazine, Ekphrastic Challenge, editor’s choice, April 2025
+ “Binary/Bloom” December 2024 issue of Worlds of Possibility
+ 2023 Fall Writing Frenzy winner, “Leaf Dance”
+ 2023 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest, “No More Ghosts” 1st place round 1, “United,” 3rd place round 2
+ 2023 NYC Midnight Rhyming Story contest, “En Plein Air,” 8th place round 1, “Sprite Night, Bright Night” 4th place round 2, advanced to finals
+ 2022 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest, “The Grave is Not its Goal” 3rd place round 1, “Sigh Not So” 1st place round 2
+ “Manifest,” winner of Ekphrastic Poetry Gallery contest, Mass Poetry Festival, 2021
+ “If Spring” poem installation with Emily Dickinson Museum, April 2019
+ 3 haiku as part of the Minuteman Bikeway celebration, August 2018
+ “Belgian Skylight,” published in all the sins, Issue 5, summer 2017
+ 3 essay series on museums and creativity, published in all the sins, spring 2017: “Art Heists for Art’s Sake” , “5 Tips on Using Museums for Inspiration”, and “And I must follow if I can”
+ “The world in a grain of sand: Incorporating a sense of scale in poetry” essay published on Mass Poetry, September 2016
+ “It Was Supposed To Be Dinosaurs” short story, Honorable Mention, Center for the Future of Museums, April 2016.
+ “The Storyvore” short fiction published on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, November 2015.
+ “Swing into the sway,” “Punk rock beauty,” “How may I learn to sit like a lotus?,” and “The Bees Know” (poems) published on Window Cat Press, Summer 2015.
+ “Biofeedback” short fiction published on Connected, October 2014.
+ “Float then Flicker” photo/poetry triptych by Meg Winikates and Michele Morris featured in Venice Arts Gallery’s 21st Gala show and Open Show LA, October 2014, part of the photo/poetry book, Palettes of Light
+ Winner, Harvard Book Store Haiku Contest, June 2014

Workshops and events I have led:
+ “On Beyond Giggles: Writing Children’s Poetry” workshop, Mass Poetry Festival, May 2017
+ “Solarpunk Serenades” workshop, Mass Poetry Festival, May 2017
+ “The World in a Grain of Sand: Incorporating Scale in Poetry and Art” workshop, Mass Poetry Festival, April 2016
+ National Poetry Month at the Longfellow National Historic Site, 2 programs, April 2o16 (“Something New, Something Strange” found poetry, “Grace Unto Every Art” ekphrastic poetry)
+ Improbable Places Poetry Tour, October 28, 2015 (Harvest/Moon theme), rescheduled to September 2016+ U35 Reading Series, September 22, 2015 (see video of this event here)
+ “Found Narratives” ekphrastic poetry workshop, Mass Poetry Festival, May 2015

Museum-Related Publications and Presentations

  • “Towards a Redefined NEMA” – New England Museums Now article, 2022
  • “Using Press for Advocacy: Letters to the Editor and More” – NEMA Conference session and associated toolkit, 2022
  • “The Real Hosts of the Museum:” Voices from the Museum Frontline 2022 Survey – New England Museums Now article, 2022
  • NEMA’s Advocacy Camp 2021, 2022
  • “Environmental Sustainability and Museums” – American Alliance of Museums advocacy brief, 2022
  • “Covid Impacts on Museums By State” – NEMA Advocacy Factsheet, 2021
  • “Bigger Impact User Guide: Why, How and When to Create Impact Statements for Advocacy” – NEMA Conference Session and associated Toolkit, 2021, presented again at American Alliance of Museums and Maine Archives & Museums Conferences 2021-2022
  • “Milk, Gas, and Mary Cassatt? How these museums are redefining ‘essential’” – New England Museums Now article, 2020 (creative future-casting)
  • “New England Museums as Climate Leaders” – NEMA Advocacy factsheet, 2020
  • “Creative Break” NEMA webinar series for COVID relief, 2020
  • “Museum Governance Snapshot: Board Practices & Issues in New England Museums Benchmarking Survey” – New England Museums Now article, 2019
  • “Behind the Scenes of the NEMA Conference” – New England Museums Now article, 2019
  • “Museum Education Impacts: Advocacy 101” – Journal of Museum Education, Virtual Special Issue, co-editor, 2018
  • “Benefits and Belonging: A Museum Membership Benchmarking Survey” – New England Museums Now article, 2018
  • “Concept, Construction, and Community: Exhibit Design Benchmarking Survey” – New England Museums Now article, 2017
  • “Museums & The Military” – NEMA Advocacy Factsheet, 2017
  • “Beyond the Media Buy: Marketing Museums with Today’s Techniques” – New England Museums Now article, 2016
  • “It was Supposed to be Dinosaurs” – Honorable mention, Center for the Future of Museums, Museum Futures Short Story Contest, AAM, 2016
  • “Museum Attendance Trends: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” – New England Museums Now article, 2016
  • “Steampunk to Starships: Museum Intersections with Popular Culture” – NEMA workshop
  • “The ‘Whos’ and ‘Hows’ of Museum Education in New England” – NEMA benchmarking publication, 2015
  • Connected Peabody Essex Museum blog, contributing writer
    (connected.pem.org/author/meg-winikates/)
  • Brain Popcorn: Playing Outside the Lines (brainpopcorn.com)
  • “Pop Up Programming and Exhibits” – 2014 NEMA Conference
  • “Looking through a New Lens: Interdisciplinary Programming” – 2009 NEMA Conference